User Guide

This page provides a brief overview of and links to some
important pages. They contain basic information to allow starting to use the
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway software for SMS messaging as soon as you have
downloaded and installed it.

Once you have successfully finished
installing
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway, you need to configure it. To
start the configuration, you need to log in.

Essential information about the login process and the basic
configuration steps is provided in
QuickStart Guide. A helpful
video tutorial is also included.

Both the login and the configuration can be performed
using the graphical user interface (GUI) of the software.
For details about the components of the GUI, check out the
Graphical User Interface (GUI) page,
as well as the links you can find there. Of course, you can also find further
information on the Graphical User Interface by studying the
QuickStart Guide

If you should have difficulty logging in, check out the
Login Problems page.

Import/Export addressbook: This guide
provides you a detailed explanation on how to import and export contacts in
the addressbook of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

Separate addressbook for each user: Find
an example on how users can receive messages with the sender's name to make
identification of the sender easier. Since each user has a separate addressbook
in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway, you need to create a new account for new contacts in
all of the addressbooks of users.

MySQL table layout: On this
page you can find the database connection information and the
database layout to setup SQL reporting in a MySQL database server.

Keywords: This page includes
the following keywords that can be used in the SQL templates used
for logging outgoing and incoming SMS messages.

Outlook spy: This guide gives you
the steps you should take to specify a custom phone number field to be
used in the Outlook SMS plugin.

Source routing: On this page you
will find information on how to select which service provider connection
should be used to send out an SMS message in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

Sender address: This article
demonstrates how you can specify the sender's address in outgoing
messages.

Content manipulation: Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway allows message content modification during routing. Read
more about this feature on this page.

Charset handling: This guide gives you
informatino about message length and character set handling of SMS messages.
This is an important topic concerning costs. Please read through it to make
sure you are able to configure the system according to your preferences.

On Client software
page you can find further links on the possible client desktop software
products that are able to communicate with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. These
are the follows:

Outlook client: On this page
you can learn how to send SMS messages from MS Outlook with the help
of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

Excel client macros:
Read an introduction about the Excel files you need to use,
Messages.xls spreadsheet, what each column is for, how to
configure the Excel macro connection and how to set the
appropriate security level in the Excel client file to allow
sending messages.

Bulk messaging in Excel:
This page demonstrates an example on how to send great numbers of
SMS text messages from Excel easily and swiftly. In case of huge
numbers of SMS messages you need to export messages into CSV file
format before sending. In this way Ozeki NG SMS Gateway will send out
your messages seamless. Please follow the configuration steps and
check the screen shots and video tutorial to adopt this solution
properly.

Command line client page explains how
you can send SMS messages with command line client executing a SendSMS.exe
file.

On Administrator's guide
page you can find further helpful links that lead to pages intended for
system administrators.

Configuration files: This page
provides information about low level configuration by editing configuration
files as an alternative method to using the graphical user interface to
configure the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

Global
environment: Be familiar with the directives that
control and affect the operation of SMS server.

SMSC connections:
This page includes information on the possible SMSC
connections in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway with links
to SMPP, CIMD2, and UCP connections.

User accounts: This
page enlists the available user accounts in Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway. Links to each of the connections are also
provided (standard, SMPP, UCP, CIMD2, SQL, HTTP client,
HTTP server user)

Load balancing for SMPP: Learn how
to achieve load balancing feature of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to join a
transmitter and a receiver connection from a GSM/CDMA service provider.

Manual installation: This guide
demonstrates how to restore Ozeki NG SMS Gateway from a backup and how
to install it manually.

Clustering: This article gives
information on how to build an Ozeki NG SMS Gateway cluster to have
a redundant SMS system.

SNMP: Find information on how
to setup SNMP monitoring for Ozeki NG SMS Gateway on this page.

Migration/Hardware Replacement:
This page provides detailed instructions on how you can keep your original
settings after you migrated your Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

Message priorities:
On this page you can learn how to affect message sending order. With this
solution you will be able to send out your high priority messages first, before
low priority messages.

Message queues:
In Ozeki NG SMS Gateway message queues are used for scheduling messages coming
from users to being sent out. Therefore, it can be ensured that messages of each
user will be sent out even in cases when one user has a great number of messages
waiting for sending in its message queue.